Maybe it’s me, but it would’ve been more appropriate if the Blachawks’ night honoring Ed Belfour would’ve included Belfour throwing out the ceremonial first punch.

Sean Payton said he was surprised “to some degree’’ by the massive media coverage of the Saints’ bounty scandal that resulted in the coach’s year suspension. Does Payton know a coach has never been handed a year suspension?

Or maybe Payton of the Naperville Paytons was lying about that the way he lied about everything else.

Opening Day at Wrigley -- don’t the Cubs have to introduce Theo Epstein? No, it’s not conventional, but then, neither is the Cubs’ having an actual building plan.

Of all the injuries suffered by Jake Peavy, how has he avoided going on the DL because of his mouth? Nobody delivers so little compared to his torrent of laughably over-the-top and remarkably empty tough guy talk. I believe doctors call it blatherrhea.